The Secret History Of Ghost Dancer
Ghost Dancer By Alan S. Kessler
Book Excerpt :
Ghost Dancer is an historical novel interweaving mystical elements in a coming-of-age story. It is an eclectic tale with an intriguing outsider; a protagonist grappling with her identity who, though once a sorrowful girl, becomes a young woman able to fight prejudices and overcome self-doubt. There is also a serious subplot, racial hatred in a 1950?s small Midwestern town as its white citizens try to prevent Native Americans from fishing, as guaranteed by treaty, in an ancestral lake.Age nine, Eleanor Wilson, lives trapped in a marble mansion. Sneaking out, she visits the grave houses in an Indian cemetery, bringing with her the faceless doll she made from wood, a corn husk, and corn silk. Here, among these small buildings, low to the ground, with moon or star shaped openings in the front where relatives of the dead place food and medicine offerings, she plays tag with make-believe cousins then rests on the stone lap of an imaginary aunt who calls her pretty.Eleanor doesn?t like
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